Currents Archive
Currents Archive
Currents is a sparkplug for communication between NOAO and our community. It provides updates—and solicits community input—on NOAO observing opportunities and NOAO programs and policies on a more rapid timescale than is possible with the quarterly NOAO Newsletter.
Current Issue
Program Update (The Gemini Opportunity): There is an opportunity for the US to acquire more nights on the Gemini telescopes given the recent interest by the UK in selling some of their Gemini time. This opportunity is related to the issue of how the Gemini partnership might evolve over the long term for the benefit of the US community. We ask you to respond to a short survey regarding the need for the US to acquire additional nights on Gemini.
NOAO Close Up (Questions for David Silva, Incoming NOAO Director): Currents talks with David Silva about his current thoughts and upcoming plans for NOAO. Silva describes his view of the opportunities open to NOAO, the challenges facing the organization, and his approach to making rapid progress. He also describes the importance of community input and his thoughts on connecting with a broad cross-section of the community.
GSMT Update: We recently circulated by email an invitation for the community to participate in the workshop “Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT” (15-18 June 2008 in Chicago). Workshop participants will discuss the opportunities for public involvement in planning and executing GSMT science programs, specifying and constructing instruments, defining operation modes and the time allocation process, the processing, archiving, and public distribution of data products, and integrating GSMT into the full system of US astronomical facilities. The workshop proceedings will be used as input to the next Decadal Survey, where a high ranking for GSMT is vital for continued progress. We encourage all interested members of the US community to attend the workshop and make their views known.
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Currents is a sparkplug for communication between NOAO and our community. It provides updates—and solicits community input—on NOAO observing opportunities and NOAO programs and policies on a more rapid timescale than is possible with the quarterly NOAO Newsletter.
NOAO is the national center for ground-based nighttime astronomy in the United States and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.